Ohio restaurant eliminates school lunch debt for school district [Video]

CLEVELAND — A North Ridgeville restaurant recently celebrated a milestone by taking a bite out of school lunch debt in their community. 

Between the Bun, a diner and burger joint on Center Ridge Road, recently celebrated the restaurant’s first anniversary. Its owners, John and Lacia Rutherford, wanted to mark the occasion by doing something special for the North Ridgeville area. 

They decided they wanted to make school lunch debt a thing of the past for local students and posted on social media to tell community members and local businesses about their fundraising effort. 

“We told them we want to raise money to pay off school lunches,” John Rutherford told 3News. “We didn’t even know honestly this is such a big issue for many children and school systems until after the fundraising …